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PUBLIC LAW 85-86 1 - S E P T. 2, 1958

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(B) by inserting the following new item in the analysis: "5506. Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve; officers: precedence."

(115) The analysis of chapter 637 is amended by striking out the 55*40 " ^ ^ ^^^'" following item: "5536. Extension: time lost through misconduct or unauthorized absence."

(116) Section 5539(a) is amended by inserting the words "for less than one year or" after the word "agreement". (117) Section 5572 is amended by striking out the word "Each" ^^ "^^ ^572. and inserting the words "Except as provided in section 5573a of this title, each" in place thereof. (118) Chapter 539 is amended— ^^i^o u s e ss7i. (A) by inserting the following new section after section 5573: "§ 5573a. Regular Navy and Regular Marine Corps: from reserve and temporary officers " (a) Appointments to the active list of the Navy in permanent grades not above lieutenant and to the active list of the Marine Corps in permanent grades not above captain may be made from officers of the Naval Reserve or the Marine Corps Reserve and from officers of the Regular N a v j or the Regular Marine Corps who do not hold permanent commissioned appointments therein. " (b) Appointments under subsection (a) shall be made by the President alone under regulations to be prescribed by him for the administration of this section. The regulations shall include provisions— "(1) establishing standards and qualifications for appointments in each grade in which appointments are authorized by subsection (a); " (2) for determining the lineal position of appointees; and "(3) for assigning running mates to officers appointed in a staff corps. "(c) To be eligible for an appointment under this section, an officer must have such qualifications as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. " (d) An officer may not be appointed to the active list of the Navy or the Marine Corps under this section in a permanent grade higher than the grade in which he is serving at the time of that appointment. However, an officer appointed in a permanent grade under this section may also be temporarily appointed to a higher grade appropriate to the lineal position assigned to him. Such a temporary appointment shall be considered to have been made under the provisions of law under which officers having a comparable lineal position on the active list of the Navy or the Marine Corps, as the case may be, were temporarily promoted to that higher grade, "(e) An officer who, at the time of his appointment under this section, has to his credit leave accrued but not taken does not lose that accrued leave because of that appointment."; and (B) by inserting the following new item in the analysis: "5573a. Regular Navy and Regular Marine Corps: from reserve and temporary oflBcers." (119) Section 5574 is amended— 10 USC 5574. (A) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows: " (b) Under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, original appointments to the active list of the Navy in the Medical Corps may also be made, as the needs of the service require, from— "(1) doctors of medicine who have such qualifications as the Secretary may prescribe; and

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